Behavioral Health Pharmacist/PRN (Florence, SC)

Medical University of South Carolina

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Seeking PRN Behavioral Staff Pharmacist for MUSC Florence, SC! The Leatherman Behavioral Health Pavilion will serve as a regional behavioral health center and include a combination of triage, crisis stabilization, telehealth, outpatient, and inpatient services that will expand much-needed behavioral health resources in the Pee Dee region. Once built, the center will occupy the site of an MUSC-owned property currently known as the Cedar Tower campus on E. Cedar Street in Florence. The project was coordinated through an advisory committee convened by South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS) Director Robby Kerr. (Opening October 2025) The MUSC Health Leatherman Pavilion features will include: A rapid access center to provide walk-in triage and assessment and offer transition to care. Telepsychiatry services to strengthen access to psychiatric services throughout the region. Sixteen adult and four adolescent beds for crisis services to rapidly stabilize patients. Outpatient adult and pediatric behavioral health clinics. A 63-bed inpatient psychiatric unit to treat patients needing more acute care, including the transfer of the 23 psychiatric hospital beds at the McLeod Behavioral Health Center in Darlington to the new facility. The behavioral health center develops individualized treatment plans. Services and treatments include: Services Mental Health Services Addiction Services Therapy

Requirements

Entry-level pharmacy degree (e.g., B.Sc, Pharm.D) from an accredited college of pharmacy
Pharmacist licensure in SC or eligibility for licensure via examination or reciprocity

Nice To Haves

one (1) or more years of experience in a hospital or health system

Responsibilities

To actively coordinate, on a day-to-day basis, the provision of high quality, comprehensive pharmaceutical care to the patients of MUSC, in compliance with federal and state legal/regulatory, accreditation, and professional standards.
Involvement with multiple drug distribution functions (inclusive of computerized order entry and/or prospective review and verification of physicians’ orders, IV admixture preparation, etc.)
Defined clinical/cognitive activities to optimize therapeutic outcomes under the aegis of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee directives (which include active communication with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare staff about the need to clarify and/or change an order along with documentation of intervention outcomes)
Educational activities with pharmacist colleagues and other health care professionals (e.g., physicians, nurses, etc.) to maintain and advance clinical competency vis-à-vis drug therapy
“Supervisory” functions which provide professional oversight and direction of technicians’ drug preparation and distribution activities to assure safe and expedient provision of pharmaceutical care to SRMC patients and staff.